Daniel Kritenbrink — America’s Future in East Asia
CGIS Knafel K262 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Daniel Kritenbrink, Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs, United States Department of StateModerator: Mark Wu, Henry L. Stimson Professor, Harvard Law School; Director, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard UniversityAlso via Zoom. Register here. Venue
China Humanities Seminar featuring Ya Zuo — Fighting Feelings with Feelings: The Quanzhen Daoist Ordering of Emotional Life
Common Room, 2 Divinity Ave. 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeaker: Ya Zuo, Associate Professor of History, University of California, Santa Barbara Quanzhen Daoism wielded a profound influence across eastern Eurasia, shaping the intellectual landscape of the Jurchen Jin dynasty (1115–1234) and leaving a lasting impact on the Mongol Yuan empire (1279–1368). In this talk, I delve into the focus on emotions in Quanzhen philosophy. The religion […]
Eurasia From the East, 2024
CGIS South Room S354 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeakers:David Wolff, Professor, Slavic-Eurasian Research Center (SRC), Hokkaido UniversityNorihiro Naganawa, Professor on Russian and Eurasian History, Hokkaido UniversityAkihiro Iwashita, Professor, Department of Slavic-Eurasian Studies, Hokkaido UniversitySerhii Plokhii, Mykhailo S. Hrushevs'kyi Professor of Ukrainian History / Director of the Ukrainian Research Institute , Harvard University As we approach the third year of the war in Ukraine, […]
Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Anne Stevenson-Yang — What Happens After the Chinese Miracle?
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Anne Stevenson-Yang, Founder and Reseach Director, J Capital ResearchModerator: Anthony Saich,Director, Rajawali Foundation Institute for Asia and Daewoo Professor of International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School Anne Stevenson-Yang co-founded J Capital Research, which publishes highly diligenced research reports on publicly traded companies. She also writes a weekly research piece called China Primary Insight. Over 25 […]
Fan Dai — Certainties out of the Uncertain: Subnational Climate Diplomacy Between the U.S. and China
Pierce Hall 100F 29 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Fan Dai, Director, California-China Climate Institute, University of California, Berkeley; Senior Fellow, Environment and Natural Resources Program and Science, Technology and Public Policy Program, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School Dr. Fan Dai is the director of California-China Climate Institute, and adjunct faculty at Energy and Resource Group, University of […]
Xiaolu Ma – Transpatial Modernity: Chinese Cultural Encounters with Russia via Japan (1880–1930)
Presented via ZoomSpeaker: Xiaolu Ma Assistant Professor, Division of Humanities, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. Moderator: David Wang, Edward C. Henderson Professor of Chinese Literature, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University Transpatial Modernity offers the first in-depth account of the triangular relationship among Chinese, Japanese, and Russian literature and culture in the modern era. Drawing on […]
Exhibit: Dunhuang and Beyond
Sackler Building, Lower Level 485 Broadway, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesA major milestone and world-renowned heritage site within Silk Road networks, Dunhuang preserves more than 400 embellished Buddhist cave shrines in present-day northwest China. Dunhuang’s cave shrines date from the fifth to fourteenth centuries. Each encloses visitors within murals and carved figures that depict Buddhist legends and paradises. Chronicling innumerable exemplary works of Buddhist artmaking […]
Exhibit: Dunhuang and Beyond
Sackler Building, Lower Level 485 Broadway, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesA major milestone and world-renowned heritage site within Silk Road networks, Dunhuang preserves more than 400 embellished Buddhist cave shrines in present-day northwest China. Dunhuang’s cave shrines date from the fifth to fourteenth centuries. Each encloses visitors within murals and carved figures that depict Buddhist legends and paradises. Chronicling innumerable exemplary works of Buddhist artmaking […]
Exhibit: Dunhuang and Beyond
Sackler Building, Lower Level 485 Broadway, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesA major milestone and world-renowned heritage site within Silk Road networks, Dunhuang preserves more than 400 embellished Buddhist cave shrines in present-day northwest China. Dunhuang’s cave shrines date from the fifth to fourteenth centuries. Each encloses visitors within murals and carved figures that depict Buddhist legends and paradises. Chronicling innumerable exemplary works of Buddhist artmaking […]
Household Registration: A Tale of Two Cities
Presented via ZoomSpeaker: Anthony Saich, Director of the Rajawali Foundation Institute for Asia and Daewoo Professor of International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy SchoolDiscussant: Rana Mitter, S.T. Lee Professor of US-Asia Relations, Harvard Kennedy School The household registration system (hukou) is widely seen as a major factor contributing to inequality in China. Individuals’ benefits depend on where their registration is located, with rural residents […]
Jeongsoo Shin — Can Korean Calligraphers Write Like Wang Xizhi? The Mujangsa Stele and its Reception in a Sino-Korean Context
Common Room, 2 Divinity Ave. 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeaker: Jeongsoo Shin, Associate Professor, Korean Cultural Studies, The Academy of Korean Studies; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2024-25Chair/Discussant: Sun Joo Kim, Harvard-Yenching Professor of Korean History, Harvard University From the late eighteenth century, Chinese scholars took a keen interest in the steles of early Korea. Some inscriptions on those steles were seen as material evidence of ancient Chinese […]
Urban China Lecture Series featuring Sarah Chang — From Xiagang (layoffs)to the New Silk Road: SOE Reform and Urban Renewal in Southwestern China from the 1990s to the Present
Presented via ZoomSpeakers: Sarah Chang, Assistant Professor of History, Miami UniversityThis presentation examines the relationship between urban renewal projects and SOE closures from the late 1990s to today. It uses published government and factory documents, oral history, and ethnography to explore how Chengdu’s urbanizing projects after the 2000s redefined the purpose of urban space, ejected industrial communities from […]